In OTL the war most people were expecting in 1914 wasn't WWI, but instead a Greco-Turkish one. This mounting crisis emerged because the Ottomans refused to accept the Greek possession of Aegean islands which THE Ottomans viewed as vital to the defense of Anatolia. As a result the Ottomans and the Greeks had begun a dreadnought race which the Ortomans decidingly were ahead in due to their luck with grabbing two half completed dreadnoughts. As a result of the supremacy those ships seemingly offered the Ottomans intended to go to war as soon as they acquired the ships. But the Greeks were more than willing to take the Ottomans on as they had so recently proved in the Balkan Wars that the Ottoman ships don't matter when the Greek sailors are far far more superior. So due to the mutual feelings of supremacy the Greeks and Ottomans were both intent on war (though the Greek prime minister tried some last minute overtures because he was worried about how a war so soon after the Balkan Wars would hurt Greece's economy). In OTL however the war was averted because WWI erupted first and the Ottomans were deprived of their dreadnoughts. What if the war did happen?
I'm interested to know how the war would play out and whether or not it would escalate.
-On the Greek side there was an admiral who wanted to pre-emptively sink the -Ottoman dreadnoughts in the Aegean, which the Prime Minister said no to. But the admiral later stated he would have done it anyway. So had he been successful how might that have affected the war.
-The Greeks also controlled two islands that guard the entrance to the Dardanelles so they presumably could prevent the Ottoman fleet from exiting the Dardanelles and iffy did the Greeks could repeat the Balkan Wars.
-Further the Greeks had a preemptive strike planned to coincide with the declaration of war. It was aimed against Gallipoli, but unlike OTL Gallipoli at the time the peninsula was poorly defended, would have been surprised by the attack, was being attacked by the renowned Metaxas, and had been carefully planned before hand. How would this assault have played out.
-Finally the Greek preemptive strike was meant to deal a hard strike at the jugular of the Ottoman Empire to demonstrate that the Ottomans shouldn't mess with the Greeks. The hope was that the strike would soon be followed by a diplomatic intervention by the Great Powers, who would reinforce their earlier arbitration of Greece getting the islands. Was Greece's hope realisable. Or might the war escalate into a world war.